Bloodhound SSC – 1,35,000 horsepower; 1,609 km/h – in New Delhi!

Depending upon your social conditioning you may or may not like a few things about the British; however, for automotive enthusiasts, the United Kingdom has always presented more than a few reasons to get excited about. The McLaren F1 comes to my mind first and so do images of classic BSAs, Nortons, etc. Then there’s this one, a picture of which I remember cutting from a newspaper way back during my school days in the Stone Age… Okay, it was in 1997.

Bloodhound SSC

I am talking about the Thrust SSC car that still holds the land speed record at 763.035 mph (1,227.985 km/h) set by an RAF (Royal Air Force) Pilot, Andy Green, way back in 1997. He intends to break his own record with the new ‘Bloodhound SSC’ (pictured above) at 1,000 mph (1,609 km/h) by 2016. The new car puts out 1,35,000 horsepower – that’s more than six times the power of all the Formula 1 cars on a starting grid put together!

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